The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program

Phase 26 Funding Deadline Information

Local Board Plans for all Phase 26 direct and State Set-Aside funding are past due. If your Local Board has not submitted their plan for Phase 26 funding, you should contact the EFSP office immediately. The deadline for Second Payment Requests has been extended to Friday, August 29, 2008. Please ensure that your second payment request is submitted to your Local Board and they sign and submit it to the EFSP as soon as possible. In order to receive Phase 26 funding, LROs need to resolve any outstanding compliance issues and submit the second payment request.

Phase 25 Final Reports and Compliance

All Final Reports for Phase 25 (FY2007) funding are now past due. If your agency has not submitted the Final Report for Phase 25, please do so immediately. LROs should resolve any compliance problems as quicky as possible to ensure receipt of Phase 26 funding. Final Reports for Phase 26 (FY2008) funding will be sent to Local Boards for distribution in the fall.

EFSP Training Webinars Available for Replay

The webinars noted below are still available and provide information for Local Boards and LROs that is relevant to the administration of the EFSP. It is highly recommended that all Local Board members and LRO staff view these webinars.

On Wednesday, March 21, 2007 and Thursday, March 22, 2007, the EFSP hosted two unique training opportunities for Local Boards and Local Recipient Organizations (LROs). If you were not able to join us, both the Local Board and LRO seminars are now available for you to replay at your convenience.

To replay the Local Board training from March 21, 2007, please click March 21 Local Board training. For a pdf copy of the Local Board Webinar PowerPoint, please click here.

To replay the LRO training from March 22, 2007 please click March 22 LRO training . For a pdf copy of the Local Recipient Organization Webinar PowerPoint, please click here.

About EFSP	More about how the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program works as a public/private partnership to deliver money to your community that is spent according to how your community sees its own needs.
Getting Funding	How the National Board allocates funds to communities and the statistics used to make those awards.
Awards County List for the Current FY County Award History State Award History National Award Summary	The awards by FY, state and county.
Funded Organizations	Organizations recently receiving funds. Or enter your ZIP code to check organizations in your local area:
Your Community	Find out how funds have been spent in your community.
Volunteering	How to find volunteering opportunities in your community.
Training Workshops	Find out about training opportunities for Local Boards and Local Recipient Organizations.
Assistance	Where can I seek assistance in my community?
LB and LRO Information This location contains the various forms and information used by Local Boards and Local Recipient Organizations.	When entering your organization ID, a Local Board would enter the jurisdiction ID, 123456 for example. For an LRO, enter 123456789, where 123456 represents the jurisdiction ID and 789 is your LRO number. Do not include the phase number or any dashes. Enter your organization ID Enter your password
Current Phase Deadlines	Key deadline dates for Phase 26.
Submitting LB Plans via the Web	Instructions on submitting LB Plans via this web site.
What Makes Sense; What Works	Around the nation EFSP local board members and staff and recipient organization staff have taken the framework of the EFSP guidelines and expanded them into administrative and service delivery systems that have increased community-wide participation -- with fairness in application and targeting to those in need as the two key considerations.
The National Board	More about the National Board and the EFSP staff.
Contact EFSP	Questions about the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program? Contact us through the mail, by phone, or through the Web.
Home pages of funded organizations	Visit web sites of organizations funded by the Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
Related Resources	Links to related resources on the Internet including government and non-profit.